Laptop HDD question

Apr 3, 2004
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Got a quick question about my laptops HDD. Its a brand new laptop (about 3 weeks old), with a 250 gig 5400 rpm HDD. When the computer is idle, or doing low stress tasks (like word processing or web browsing), the hard drive will randomly make some clicky noises every now and then, which sounds to me kinda like its trying to access data really quick, but the noise is not the same as the normal hard drive loading noise. Someone on another forum described it as the sound of "parking and un-parking it's head every 10-20 seconds." I'm running Vista on the computer, a few suggestions people said were that it was drive indexing, or vista's quick search feature, another person suggested running some notebook hardware control program. I just wanted to get the two cents from other people, see if anyone else had this sound on their comps. Before I got my current system, I had a dell which also had a 250 gig HDD, and it also made the same type of noise (so it leads me to believe that its not a bad drive, since having 2 would be unlikely). So any ideas?
 

corkyg

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I don't think you have a problem. Vista does do a lot of stuff behind the scenes, and that causes the HDD to access things.

I replaced my HDD with the 200 GB 7200 RPM drive for better performance. The extra 50 GB was not significant. I don't hear any such noises - but then I have Vista pretty well under control after almost a year of use.

My sense is that in time it will lessen the HDD access.
 
Apr 3, 2004
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I didnt think it was a huge problem, it can just be kind of annoying at times, I'm sure I'd eventually get used to it, but I was hoping I could get it to stop. Does turning off indexing hurt anything? Im kinda paranoid about anything I do with vista right now. And what about the quick searching stuff, how do you turn that off, and what does it do?

Edit: some other guy I talked to insists that its a sign of a bad drive. But I cant believe that I would be so unlucky as to get two bad hard drives in two different laptops of different brands, with the exact same sound
 
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